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GreatCaesarsGhost

(8,585 posts)
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 03:54 PM Mar 2019

Well. we can hope the Grand Jury itself will release a report.

I'd like to hear what they have to say.


edit to add:

159. Reports of Special Grand Juries

At the conclusion of its service, a special grand jury is authorized under 18 U.S.C. § 3333, by a majority vote of its members, to submit to the district court, potentially for public release, a grand jury report, which must concern either: (1) noncriminal misconduct, malfeasance, or misfeasance in office involving organized crime activity by an appointed public officer or employee, as the basis for a recommendation for removal or disciplinary action; or (2) organized crime conditions in the district, without however being critical of any identified person. ("Public officer or employee" is defined broadly in 18 U.S.C. § 3333(f) to include Federal, State and local officials.)

Upon receiving a report from a special grand jury, the district court must examine it, together with the minutes of the special grand jury, and accept it, for eventual filing as a public record, if the report is: (1) one of the two types authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 3333(a); (2) based upon facts discovered in the course of an authorized criminal investigation; (3) supported by a preponderance of the evidence; and (4) if each public officer or employee named in the report was afforded a reasonable opportunity to testify and present witnesses on his/her own behalf before the special grand jury, prior to its filing the report. (It would seem that 18 U.S.C. § 3333(a) necessitates a recording of the proceedings if a special grand jury may issue a grand jury report.)

more at link and also I'm no lawyer.

https://www.justice.gov/jm/criminal-resource-manual-159-reports-special-grand-juries

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Well. we can hope the Grand Jury itself will release a report. (Original Post) GreatCaesarsGhost Mar 2019 OP
Grand jury proceedings are rarely substantially made public... LincolnRossiter Mar 2019 #1
How would that happen? Nt FBaggins Mar 2019 #2
I added info in OP GreatCaesarsGhost Mar 2019 #3
No chance of that happening FBaggins Mar 2019 #5
They can also do a data dump directly to Congress Fiendish Thingy Mar 2019 #4

FBaggins

(26,756 posts)
5. No chance of that happening
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 04:30 PM
Mar 2019

That speculation was based on thoughts that Trump would fire Mueller and it was a way that his work would still get out.

Any such report would never get past the judge when the special prosecutor actually made a report.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,650 posts)
4. They can also do a data dump directly to Congress
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 04:26 PM
Mar 2019

As was done in the case of the Watergate "roadmap".

It's good that Meuller finished now; the Grand Jury is seated until June, and if they either release a report or send all their evidence to Congress, it could be a long, hot summer for the Trump crime family.

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